LIOR MODAN

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Lior Modan  (born 1983) lives and works in Queens, New York. 

His practice exists in constant slippage between distinct territories: painting and object, abstraction and figuration, gestural and surreal. Modan received his MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University's Sculpture + Extended Media program (2013). 

 

Modan’s work has been exhibited in venues domestically and abroad. 

Recent solo exhibitions were held at Dinner Gallery, New York (2025), CPM, Baltimore (2024), Make Room, Los Angeles (2021), Triumph, Chicago (2017), Golconda Gallery, Tel Aviv (2016), and NURTUREart, New York (2015). 

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Selected group exhibitions include the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Marinaro Gallery, New York, Peana Projects, Mexico, F2T Gallery, Milan, Italy; Harkawik Gallery, Los Angeles, Coustof Waxman Gallery, New York, WOAW Gallery, Hong Kong, and Haifa Museum, among others. 

 

In 2022, Modan released a collaboration with Kelly Wearstler named Technicolor.

The project consisted of a series of three velvet works, each in editions of 10. 

 

His work was featured in various newspapers and magazines, such as The Observer, Architectural Digest, Timeout, Modern China, HyperAllergic, Wallpaper Magazine, and NewcityArts.  

 

Modan has been an Artist-in-Residence at the LMCC Workspace Residency (2013-2014, NYC), and the Seven Below Arts initiative (2013, Burlington, VT). He received the Phi Kappa

Phi award (2011-12), the Feed Biennial award (2013), and the VSC Joan Mitchell Foundation fellowship (2013).